Michael Donhauser

Michael Donhauser (born October 27, 1956 in Vaduz / Principality of Liechtenstein) is an Austrian writer.

Life

Michael Donhauser grew up as an Austrian citizen in Liechtenstein, where he attended elementary and high school. From 1976 he studied German and Romance languages in Vienna. In 1984 he completed his studies with a thesis on the German translations of Charles Baudelaire's " Les Fleurs du Mal ". Donhauser has been publishing prose, poetry and essays since 1986. In addition, he has occasionally translated works by Arthur Rimbaud and Francis Ponge from French.

Michael Donhauser lives in Vienna.

Awards

1988 Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Prize
1990 Manuscript Prize
1995 Christine Lavant Poetry Prize
2000 Scholarship Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
2001 Mondseer Poetry Prize
2002 Christian Wagner Prize
2004 Merano Poetry Prize
2005 Ernst Jandl Prize
2009 Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry
2019 Heimrad Bäcker Prize
2019 “neue texte” essay award for the Heimrad baker award

Publications

The elder. Prose poetry, Droschl, Graz 1986
Edgar. Stories, Residence, Salzburg 1987
The literal nature of the quince. Prose poetry, Droschl, Graz 1990
You still and. Poems of love and praise, residence, Salzburg 1991
Of things. Prose poems, Hanser, Munich 1993
Livia or The Journey. Roman, residence, Salzburg 1996
Sarganserland. Poems, Urs Engeler Editor , Basel 1999
The gardens. Prose, Urs Engeler Editor, Basel 2000
From the snow. Prose, Urs Engeler Editor, Basel. 2003
By seeing. Prose, Urs Engeler Editor, Basel 2004
I haven't only thought of you for a long time. Poems, Urs Engeler Editor, Basel 2005
Most beautiful songs. Urs Engeler Editor, Basel 2007
Edgar and the others. Stories, Urs Engeler Editor, Basel 2008
Close to the run. Urs Engeler Editor, Basel 2009
Six variations. To Werner Hamacher . In Aris Fioretos (ed.): Babel. For Werner Hamacher. ibid. 2009, pp. 111–116.
Variations in prose. Variations in March. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-937-1 .
Forest wall. A paraphrase . Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2016

Web links

Michael Donhauser at Verlag Urs Engeler Editor
Literature by and about Michael Donhauser in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Donhauser, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vaduz

[1] ttps://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/termin/verleihung-der-heimrad-baecker-preise.html

[2] ttps://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/termin/verleihung-der-heimrad-baecker-preise.html

[3] ttps://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/variationen-in-prosa.html?lid=5

[4] ttps://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/waldwand.html?lid=1